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 >>>>> your fianc€€".  I knew several boys who attended a Catholic school, 
 >>>>> and they weren't all Catholic. only thing that came out of that was 
 >>>>> when they queried some point of Catholic doctrine and the staff 
 >>>>> couldn't answer! 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> But bigotry?  None. 
 >>>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>> I am glad that you had a good experience at school. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> A while back, I suggested that the antisemitic remarks that my elderly 
 >>>> female friend witnessed at her school would have come from batty old 
 >>>> nuns who should never have been employed as teachers. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> I am not in a position to examine their personnel files or their 
 >>>> teacher training certificates after this length of time, of course. 
 >>>> But I can readily accept that batty, bigoted old nuns are not likely 
 >>>> to have been typical of the teaching staff at the average Catholic 
 >>>> school in your own day. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> However, it's also possible that bigotry won't be noticed at the time 
 >>>> or stay in the memory forever. In the same way, the Black and White 
 >>>> Minstrel Show would not have registered as racist or objectionable 
 >>>> when it was broadcast every week. 
 >>> 
 >>> It merely registered to me as very boring. 
 >>> 
 >>> Racism is a mindset.  Why did they put on black face? To a young person, 
 >>> as I was, maybe they thought we, the viewers, preferred black singers. 
 >> 
 >> It wasn't that. 
 >> 
 >> The tradition of performing in blackface (which in vaudeville was known 
 >> as "minstrelcy") goes back to the nineteenth century at a minimum. 
 >> 
 >> Al Jolson is probably the name most associated with it, but he was 
 >> following a tradition which was at least forty years old when he started 
 >> in the early years of the last century. 
 >> 
 >> Not all those using black greasepaint and that particular way of 
 >> applying it were white, by the way. 
 > 
 > One wonders why Lenny Henry isn't cancelled as a result. 
 > 
 >    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show 
 > 
 > "contractually obliged", my a***e. 
  
 I personally cancelled Lenny Henry a long time ago. 
  
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